Fans in the stands: Local schools starting to let people attend football games

PITTSBURGH — Some local school districts will welcome fans back to football games Friday night, just days after a judge ruled Pennsylvania’s gathering limits were unconstitutional.

Right now, Gov. Tom Wolf’s statewide order limiting outdoor gatherings to 25 people and outdoor gatherings to 250 people remains in effect. Wolf said he will appeal the judge’s ruling.

In the meantime, some school districts are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to fans in the stands.

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Karns City Area School District is opening up to all fans. Its stadium can hold about 2,000 people.

Butler Area School District will allow a limited number of spectators and the band and cheerleaders will be allowed to perform at the game. Each student athlete and performer will get two tickets for family and friends.

Burrell School District will give two tickets for senior participants and one for underclassmen. The band and cheerleaders can also participate.

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Each district said it will follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. Fans in the stands will have to wear masks and social distance.

“People can make a choice. This whole thing is about choices, individual choices. Americans can stay home if they want to stay home. Americans can go out if they want to go out,” Attorney Tom King, who represented Butler, Fayette, Greene and Washington counties in the lawsuit that led to the judge’s ruling on the state’s COVID-19 restrictions.

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